Grant Green and Bunting

[YouthofToday]

https://twitter.com/MikeDiGiovanna/status/370282096809349120

Apparently Scioscia stated the As never taught Green how to bunt.

I wish the Angels had the same philosophy.

[Angel Oracle]

LOL at Scioscia, according to one of the commenters, the A'ths have a lot of bunts so far.

[m0nkey]

Don't bunt.  Problem solved

[jshep]

Uh, Grant Green has 12 sac bunts in his minor league career, including 3 for the As Triple-A affiliate this year.

 

This is a not insignificant number for a guy who could actually hit.

[Amazing Larry]

Learning how to bunt at the major league level. That's a new one.

 

Why do I have the feeling that he knows how to bunt and Scioscia just doesn't like the way he executes it? What a complete waste of time. 

 

[Mudville]

Melissa Lockard ‏@oakclubhouse 37m

@MikeDiGiovanna @DaleTafoya I guess he hasn't seen the A's play this year. They lead the world in bunts.

 

 

Another dumbass A's fan. The A's have 11 successful bunts the entire season the Angels 17, tied with Cleveland, the Royals and one less than the Yankees.

 

The World Wide leader in bunts, at least in the AL? The Rangers with 21.

[Homebrewer]

Forget pitching, hitting, catching the ball, running the bases...,

But... being unable to bunt will get Scioscia's blood boiling.

[Docwaukee]

Not overly impressed with Green as of yet.  He seems so angry. 

[Homebrewer]

Not overly impressed with Green as of yet.  He seems so angry. 

He went from a winning team with a great manager and a really good coaching staff.. to the Angels.

I would be angry too.

[AngelsAndRamsFan]

The sample size is still very small, but so far he's put up very good numbers against RHP's (in 40 ab's he's hitting .350/.422/.400/.822), but he still doesn't have a hit off a LHP'S in 21 ab's (he has two walks). Also, it would be nice if he drove the ball more.

[Mudville]

He went from a winning team with a great manager and a really good coaching staff.. to the Angels.

I would be angry too.

So what's your excuse for being angry all of the time?

 

Look, all this angst about bunting is pretty ridiculous. Bunting is a skill that can be used to a manager's advantage and having an infielder without power that can't perform to the situation is a liability. Any manager would be less than happy that an 8th pick of the draft went through the minors without even the basic level skills for situational hitting. It is on the player for either not learning the skill or refusing to learn.

 

Enough about that, bunting is simply a situational skill like making productive outs. The Angels this season are only 37% successful in a productive out while in 2002 they were 40% successful. (They also had 27 successful bunts that season.) All part of an offense package that could generate runs even when the MOTO bats have completed their turn in the lineup.

 

The most successful of the 2002 productive out squads was David Eckstein (55%), Darin Erstad (48%), Benjie Molina (41%) and Scott Speizio (42%).  These starters knew how to move a runner along when in a situation where they may not be able to do so because of the pitching matchup. They made good enough contact to at least stay out of a double play.

 

Move to this team and the productive outs came from Erik Aybar (55%), Alberto Callaspo (55%), JB Shuck (48%) and surprisingly Pujols (44%) with an honorable mention to Bourjos (59%). These numbers are based on opportunity and the number one guy in terms of opportunity (60 chances) was Hamilton (28%) and that is the tale of the season. Not even in failure can Josh redeem himself this year by at least making a productive out.

 

Do I want to see a predictive out? Oh heck no but last night with bases loaded and no outs a productive out wins the game. Simple situational hitting where the batter takes himself out of the stat equation for a hit and simply gets the job done. Something this team just isn't able to do.

[tennischmp]

He should be riding the pine until he learns how to bunt properly.

[mtangelsfan]

yep, Sosh has never been successful having teams moving runners over.

 

This is why I believe that one of Dipoto or Sosh (or both quite honestly) must go. 

[katie]

No wonder he always looks mad

[Tank]

Forget pitching, hitting, catching the ball, running the bases...,

But... being unable to bunt will get Scioscia's blood boiling.

 

same goes for catchers who have a lousy squat ethic.

[Homebrewer]

Scioscia's record with backstops...new and vets, is stellar and above reproach.

[shellback]

back to slc until he learns to bunt and make other productive outs

[Hollyw00d]

Grant Green is dead to scioscia if he can't bunt

[Hollyw00d]

Scioscia:  "This is a SIMPLE game.  You throw the ball, you BUNT the ball, you catch the ball.  YOU GOT IT?????"

[SmallSampleSize]

If the NFL wasn't here already (FFL's and drafts for now), I think the sheer black hole level of The Suck this team has...might make me weep openly.

[CaliAngel]

For how incredibly basic it is, bunting is a crap load more important that a lot of people give it credit for.

 

Just look at all the times Aybar has effed it up and cost us games.

[YouthofToday]

We should be bunting far less than we currently do. This isn't little league. MLB infielders can actually field bunts.

[Amazing Larry]

For how incredibly basic it is, bunting is a crap load more important that a lot of people give it credit for.

 

Just look at all the times Aybar has effed it up and cost us games.

I see how terrible Aybar is at bunting... and then I see Scioscia ask him to bunt again. It's baffling.

[Angel Oracle]

I have to give credit to Romine for bunting a 2 strike low pitch very well on Sat. night.

[Hollyw00d]

We should be bunting far less than we currently do. This isn't little league. MLB infielders can actually field bunts.

A lot of sciosciaball is dependent on the defense playing like ten year olds. That's why a lot of the time it fails miserably